After autumn begins in Weiyuan, the autumn mood becomes more intense. The weather is colder than Qinzhou, autumn begins earlier, and the flow of the Wei River is much less than before, and it flows more slowly.
By this time, the wasteland near Weiyuan Fort was almost flat, totaling nearly a thousand hectares.
Some canals have also been built, so winter wheat can be sown at this time.
After Zhang Yue received the wheat seeds from Guwei, he immediately ordered them to be sown. Don't delay the farming season. The earlier you harvest the grain, the earlier you will have the capital to march to Lintao.
Otherwise, the grain and horse feed imported from the ancient Wei Dynasty was barely enough to feed these people and horses today. Zhang Yue also used salt money to buy some cattle and sheep from various tribes from time to time. Only then did the highland barley make people full. As for the food for future troops.
Savings are never enough.
The banks of the Weishui River are currently full of busy farmers and troops, so we can look forward to the prosperous scene next spring.
If there is a good harvest of wheat next spring and winter, Zhang Yue decided to increase the food treatment from two meals a day to three meals a day. In the Song Dynasty, three meals a day was a treatment only available to the citizens and scholar-bureaucrats.
The salt fields are also doing well. More than a dozen newly dug wells can now produce more than 1,500 kilograms of salt per day.
This salt can not only be eaten by oneself, but also supplied to Gu Wei and sold to nearby Tibetan tribes. The technology of refining salt in the Song Dynasty was better than that of Mu Zheng, and the output was several times that of him. Zhang Yue was very kind in doing business.
, sold much cheaper than Muzheng.
Therefore, the Tibetan people from all nearby tribes were willing to buy salt from Zhang Yue. At the same time, Zhang Yue continued to lure Tibetan people from the Tibetan tribe to serve as kitchen men, and the saltsmiths continued to dig new salt wells.
When the salt merchants from Sichuan and Sichuan heard that Zhang Yue was digging salt wells in the Qingtang Dynasty, they all expressed their willingness to come here to buy salt and sent people to contact them. There was an ancient Zhangmin Road connecting the Qingtang Dynasty to Hanzhong. When Deng Ai and his son destroyed Shu
That's the way to go.
If the salt can be sold to Sichuan and Shu, Zhang Yue will have another source of wealth.
Wang Shao's plan when he went to Ping Rongce was to recapture the Qingtang Dynasty, so that Sichuan and Shu would be connected with Qinfeng Road and Qingtang Dynasty. This would not only protect Qinfeng Road, but also Sichuan and Shu. Besides, this was the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
If Zhang Yue were here for a year, then Weiyuan would definitely give him a solid business and at the same time continue to erode Mu Zheng's power. Of course, Mu Zheng would definitely not give him this opportunity.
On this day Zhiyuan came to Weiyuan Castle, and at the same time two Tibetan monks came, namely Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluojie.
Although Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluojie were Buddhist monks, they were tribes with tens of thousands of people in Xizhou.
When the Tibetan people fight, all the people, men, women, old and young can take part in the battle.
Although Jiewu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo had tens of thousands of people under their command, they were less than one-tenth of the population of an ordinary county in the Song Dynasty, but they were still very important forces in Xizhou.
Zhiyuan was responsible for the foreign affairs of the Tibetan Ministry. This time, after Zhang Yue and Wang Shao captured Lanhui, they asked Zhiyuan to go to Qingtang City to appease Dong Fei and Mu Zheng to avoid being attacked on both sides.
But this time Zhiyuan brought a piece of bad news and two pieces of good news.
It turned out that Dong Felt's son Lin Bubi first married a Uighur in Ganzhou. This time Liang Yimi tried his best to win over Dong Felt in order to send troops to attack the Song Dynasty. Dong Felt heard that Zhang Yue and Wang Shao had surrendered many Qing and Tang tribes, and he also saw that
The Song Dynasty had the ambition to restore Hehuang.
Now that none of the Qing and Tang tribes could resist the Song Dynasty, they agreed to Liang Yimi's request and gave his beloved daughter to Lin Bubi as his wife.
So Lin Bubi married two wives at the same time, one from Ganzhou Uighur and the other from Dangxiang.
Dong Fei also agreed to Liang Yi's request to join forces with Xia to resist the Song Dynasty.
Although Zhang Yue had anticipated this incident, when it came to the end, he still felt that Dong Fei would completely fall to Xixia, which was also an unknown number.
Historically, Dong Zhen had not decided to defect to Xixia so quickly, but because he and Wang Shao were progressing too fast in the Qingtang Dynasty, it aroused his vigilance.
Therefore, he also gave up maintaining neutrality between Xixia and Song Dynasty, and even slightly leaned towards the Song Dynasty, and quickly united with Xixia.
As for the good news brought by Zhiyuan, the lord of Miaochuan City, Wen Nazhi Ying City, decided to return to the Song Dynasty after learning about Dong Fei's alliance with Xia Dynasty.
Wen Nazhi Yingcheng, the grandson of Wen Buqi, the son of a golden dragon.
He and Dong Xiang had a feud. His power in the Qing and Tang Dynasties was not much weaker than that of Dong Xiang, and his territory was right between Dong Xiang and Xixia.
If Dong Zhan united with Xixia and sent troops from both sides at the same time, he would be done with the city of Wen Na and Zhi Ying.
Therefore, after Wennazhiyingcheng learned that Dong Fei had returned to Xia, he took the initiative to contact Zhiyuan and expressed his intention to join the Song Dynasty.
Wen Na Zhi Ying City commanded 28 tribes and had more than 60,000 soldiers. If he returned to the Song Dynasty, it would be much easier for Zhang Yue and Wang Shao to pacify the Qing Tang Dynasty.
Another good news is that Wu Chila and Kangzang Xingluo have sneaked in to welcome Dong Yu to Lintao.
Who is Dong Yu?
He is Dong Xiang's clan nephew and Mu Zheng's brother. Previously, Xixia wanted to ask about the marriage between Dong Xiang and Dong Yu. However, Dong Xixia was afraid that Dong Yu would split his power in the clan after becoming Xixia's son-in-law, so he did not answer.
Yun instead made his son Xixia's son-in-law.
Dong Yu was dissatisfied with Dong Felt and left him. Later, Jie Wu Chila met him and persuaded him to establish his own business, and at the same time united the Song Dynasty to fight Dong Felt.
Dong Yu thought for a while and agreed to kill Wu Chila and led his troops to Lintao. After marrying Wu Chila, he joined forces with Kangzang Xingluo, so the three of them became Zhang Yue's internal advisers in Xizhou.
Zhang Yue immediately discussed with Kang Zang Xingluo and Jie Wu Chila all night, and also informed Zhang Yue of the news that Mu Zheng had united various ministries to attack this time.
Why do they believe Zhang Yue?
Because of Longtuge's pending status, they believed that Zhang Yue, as a senior official of the Song Dynasty, would definitely keep his word.
When the two went back to rest, Zhi Yuan said: "Since these two people and Dong Yu are willing to rely on us, if we send troops to Lin Tao at this time, once the inside and outside are coordinated, why worry about whether the attack on the wood cannot be broken and the Tao cannot fall?"
Zhiyuan's proposal is very attractive.
Zhang Yue said: "That's true, I still can't believe them."
"How can I see it?"
Zhang Yue said: "Mu Zheng was about to send troops to attack me, but these two people came here to make an appointment to surrender. This is really a coincidence."
Zhiyuan was startled and said: "Long Tu is saying that this may be Mu Zheng's plan, and he sent them deliberately to win our trust?"
Zhang Yue said: "It is possible."
Zhiyuan thought for a moment and said, "It's impossible. Dong Yu and Mu Zheng are at odds. This is a sure thing and it's definitely not fabricated."
Zhang Yue smiled and said: "I am just speculating, but you see, when these two people are leaving tomorrow, I will hold a banquet to practice it. Then they will definitely encourage me to send troops from Weiyuan and Qingyu Fort to attack Lintao. If they
If you still don’t say a word, it’s considered that I misunderstood them.”
Zhiyuan nodded after hearing this.
Zhang Yue said: "But even if they are true, I can't send troops. Because the soldiers and horses are not yet ready and need to be trained. At the same time, there is insufficient food and grass in Weiyuan, so it is not a good opportunity to send troops. This is not something that I can be sure of, so I won't
Willing to do it.”
The next day Zhang Yue rewarded the two with a lot of salt money and asked them to take it back to Dong Yu.
As a result, Wu Chila vigorously encouraged Zhang Yue to send troops to Taoyuan at the banquet, and the three of them agreed to provide internal support.
